Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Dramatists - Page 14

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

Homesickness for the gutter.

Men die but an idea does not.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.